subject: Vitiligo Cure Possibility In United States: [print this page] Vitiligo is a skin virus with the warning signs of appearance of white patches on dissimilar skin areas, graying of hairs coloration, and concerned retina of eyes and smash up skin mucous membrane layer. The disease has an effect on 40 to 50 million people all around the world which makes 1 to 2 percent of the worlds population. In United States Vitiligo influences two to three million national citizens. Thus in the region of one person out of every 136 is affected by vitiligo, which makes .74%. There are several reasons for the happening of vitiligo; such as:
Heredity
Immune system disease
Dietary lack
Usage of chemicals skin products like skin bleaching
By taking excessive amount of antibiotics
Sun burn/ sun exposure
Physical Injuries
By wearing dark color cloths in summer etc
No matter what ever the reason of the disease is. The main problem is always linked up with the melanocytes cells. Our skin is consisting on some special cells whose task is to produce melanin cells in skin. These melanin cells further produce pigment substances in the skin. The pigment cells are present in skin in three different colors like the yellowish, whitish as well as in brownish color. When these cells amount becomes less in skin the skin acquires white spots or patches and thus becomes depigmented.
The judgment of the vitiligo is not an impossible task. A medical doctor just by seeing white spots/patches on skin can comprehend what the disease is? In the preliminary stage of the disease the white spots are very diminutive in size and imperfect to body parts. More habitually than not appearing on those skin areas that are out in the open to sun rays most of the time such as hands, face, arms, legs etc. but after sometime the white spots becomes so large that they start spreading all over the body and becomes too large.
In United States or all over the world there is no cure of vitiligo. According to the American Vitiligo Research Foundation-AVRF there is no cure of vitiligo. Vitiligo treatments such as
